About Us

Olympia Fencing Center is New England’s largest and most successful fencing center.

Our center is located 15 minutes away from Boston’s city lights, across the beautiful Fresh Pond, in Cambridge, MA.
Featuring over 6500 SF, state of the art equipment, and 16 electrical fencing strips, custom-made for shock absorption, our club offers world-class fencing training, being a leading force in the regional, national and international fencing.

Olympia Fencing Center offers épée and foilclasses, seven days a week, along with summer camps, clinics and community outreach programs.

Founded and directed by former Romanian National and European Champion, Daniel Hondor, our stellar team includes World Championship finalists and multiple Chinese National Champions, Shuang Meng and Kai Zhao, former members of China’s Junior and Senior National Foil Teams.

We welcome fencers of allages and skill levels.
Olympia’s bi weekly open bouting programgathersthe best fencers around the country and the world.NCAAstudent-athletes, Olympia’s Alumni, in town visitors, and our best students, fill the fencing floor every Wednesday and Sunday.

If you are like the thousands who fell in love with this sport, our fencing club will become your second home. At Olympia, we take that responsibility seriously. Our fencers are competitors – and best friends. There are no age barriers, skill barriers, or shyness.

We want our members to love fencing, we believe that you can only excel in what you’re doing best and this is why we offer everyone a chance to try this wonderful sport.

Appointments are required: email or call us today, to learn more and reserve your spot.info@olympiafencingcenter.com Phone:(617) 945 9448

Some of our best results

In July 2017, our young club, founded in 2012, has received from the US Fencing Association the “Excellence Award in Membership“, as the fastest growing club in the country!

Over the years, Olympia Fencing Center has produced some of the best fencers in the country. Our students are active participants in world, national and regional events, continuously earning numerous titles and medals.

Both Ale’s sister, Isabela, and mom, Angelica, are epee fencers.
Angelica is the coach of the Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School Fencing Team, the Falcons, proudly supported by our club. She is a part of our coaches team, teaching the Musketeers programs.

Senior Men’s Epee: Robert Hondor, 65th (2nd best ranking in the NE Division)

Vet 40 Women’s Epee: Eva Heinrich, 10th

Vet 40 Men’s Epee: Kevin Foley, 29th

*Note: Greta and Hunter Candreva live in New York and practice at the Putnam County Fencing Club and NY Athletic. However, they are paid members of our club, they’re training with Olympia’s director, Daniel Hondor, and travel to Cambridge twice a month for private lessons and open bouting.

Other important achievements obtained by our club’s fencers:

Pomme De Terre, 2016: 14 year old Emily Vermeule won the Senior Women’s Epee, making her the youngest fencer to win the competition in 28 years.

May 2016: Emily earned her A rating, making her the youngest A rated fencer in the New England Division and one of the youngest in the country.

May 2016: 15 year old, Allan Ding, foil student training with Coaches Shuang Meng and Kai Zhao, has earned his A rating, becoming also the youngest A rated male foil fencer in New England.

Winning the Pomme de Terre since 2013!

Olympia Fencing Center is an important staple of this prestigious competition, since it’s birth, in 2013.

High School State Champions three years in a row!

2015: Matthew Mansoor earned double Gold, Massachusetts State Champion Men’s Epee and Captain of the State Champions Men’s Epee Falcons Team!Rebecca Barnes, fencing for the Beaver Country Day School fencing team, has earned Silver in the Women’s competition!

All three fencers were fencing for the Falcons Team, representing the Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School.

College Bound!

Daniel’s Hondor former student, Alejandra Trumble, has won the women’s epee competition, at the Ivy League College Championships, in Ithaca, New York, as a U Penn Junior.
Alejandra also led the women’s team, to place fourth in the teams’ competition.

Alejandra is the only fencer to score the most wins in the university’s history, ever.

Matthew Mansoor, former student and coach at Olympia, between 2012-2016, is studying and fencing at Penn State, and coming home to his fencing club during all vacations.

So is Alisa Hofmann, Daniel’s student since 2007, in her second year at Penn State.

Zachary Boynton started training with Coach Daniel in 2008, until his graduation from Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, and continuing education at University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Today, an Assistant Coach at Cornell University, Zach is occasionally returning to his home club, whenever visiting his family, in Cambridge, to fence his former clubmates and friends.

Here are a few more of our club’s former students, currently attending college:

Connor Ghazaleh, 2015, Duke University

Isabela Trumble, 2016, Boston University

Isabel Kain, 2017, Northeastern University

Noah Scott, 2017, Stevens Institute of Technology

We’re looking forward to raising new generations, and each one will grow fond in our hearts, because, at Olympia, we’re not just a fencing club, we’re a big, happy family!